Case Study 2: The Digital Transformation of Health Care

Tardieu, Hubert; Daly, David; Esteban-Lauzán, José; Hall, John; Miller, Grady L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37955-1_23

Cited by 9 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The public healthcare scenario considered was a public hospital. This environment will be the healthcare providers for the Covid-19, as mention in reference [14]. The partners for the research were a public hospital and a specialized clinic in neurology in the city of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which clearly understood the goal and benefits from e-health digital data.…”

Section: Public Healthcare Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Atena: A Public Primary Healthcare Environment Supported by an Implementation Science Approach

Dantas

Campos

Mendonças

et al. 2021

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Public primary healthcare environments are facing grand challenges related to digital transformations. This is reported from many studies, in several countries, and observed from diverse areas. The present war against the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the required utilization of combined information and communications technology approaches. In this paper we present the Atena research work, which is a proposal development that focus on a public primary healthcare system digital transformation. The approach of implementation science is observed through our scientific studies of methods to gather the digital data, and recommendation strategies to facilitate healthcare personal, and using the evidence-based practice from the Atena. Study scenarios provide interesting view of several elements which can help to enhance a wider discussion about technologies and their scientific implementation. We considered wearable devices used by different groups of voluntaries. Vital digital signals from these voluntaries were gathered to afterwards be evaluated by professionals inside the healthcare premises. To provide a better understanding of these people´s behaviors, a recommendation system (RS) is being conceived as a support tool, utilizing their digital vital signals. Another element from the proposal is a simulator-based architecture. This component highlights people´s movement and predictable scenarios of contamination. A common daily monitoring scenario can be enhanced from these simulations’ experiences. After our initial results, it is possible to affirm that the Antena proposal provides a valuable approach to face several efforts in digital transformation in public primary healthcare structures. This transformation can be verified in the present pandemic scenario. Experiences from this research indicates that the adoption of some computational technologies requires major changes on the present behavior from governments and citizens.

show abstract

Section: Public Healthcare Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Atena: A Public Primary Healthcare Environment Supported by an Implementation Science Approach

Dantas

Campos

Mendonças

et al. 2021

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…As it is discussed in [12], health care is facing the challenge of affordability in a growing and aging population. The authors argue that the progress in data-enabled precision medicine is beginning to transform traditional linear models to an environment of multi-sided market variants.…”

Section: Digital Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Relevant to mention that our case study efforts were born from Federal Brazilian Government proposal call targeting public services polices. Therefore, our proposal is oriented to (i) health information exchange for public services and (ii) a balance between centralized and decentralized activity, important challenges highlighted in related works [12,13]. In our architecture we have three different type of fog environments:…”

Section: Related Work and Proposed Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The hospital scenario was the public hospital, which in the end of the day will be the healthcare providers for the Covid-19, as mention in reference [12]. The partner from the research was a public hospital in the city of Juiz de Fora, in Brazil, which clearly understand the goal and benefits from a e-health digital data.…”

Section: Hospital Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The return from the personnel from the hospital has been incredibly positive. However, the regulatory preconditions (as mentioned in [12]) exists and are barriers to be transposes.…”

Section: Hospital Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Covid-19: A Digital Transformation Approach to a Public Primary Healthcare Environment

Nascimento

Iorio

Thomé

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Digital transformation in e-health is a well-known challenge problem reported from several studies and from several dimensions. In addition, it has been verified a gap in the utilization of new technologies as differential tool in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we present an ongoing research effort which is characterized for supporting a digital transformation gap found in a public primary healthcare system. Therefore, it can be seen as an interesting case study approach to tackle some challenges found in Covid-19. Utilizing smart bands by groups of different type of voluntaries, where vital signals were collected in a digital data fashion and then evaluated in public health unit. A recommendation system (RS) algorithm was also developed to understand users´ behaviors, based upon their vital signals. In addition, we utilized a simulator software to highlight people movement and predictable scenarios of Covid-19 contamination. This last effort provides a visualization on how the proposal could also help in a real ordinary monitoring scenario. Initial results from this research work indicates a differentiated approach to tackle challenges in digital transformation in a public health scenario, especially in a pandemic. In addition, our experiments illustrate that the adoption of some computational technologies require mainly changes on the present behavior, from governments and people, to be successful approaches to individual protection inside public environments.

show abstract